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February 02, 2004

If It Ain't Broke -- What The Heck, Break It Yourself

So you know how I said (below) that there'd be no nonsense like a superfluous site redesign when Blather returned to the air? That turned out to be not so much true. Here's Blather '04, which is not only redesigned but comes to you via Typepad, or Movable Type for people who are mesmerized by pretty, brightly-colored things. If you haven't already done so, this might be a good time to adjust your bookmarks... and to those of you who've been kind enough to link to Blather from your own sites, take a moment to correct those links now, won't you? It's okay, I'll wait.

{la la dee, la da daaaa.... }

I'm hoping to exploit the behind-the-scenes power of Typepad more and more in the days ahead. I'll be categorizing archived posts for easy access, for example, which will mean a long and tedious period of attaching category stamps to posts created under MT... Hmmm. Well, what the hell. I'll do it. Because why? Because Blather is all about YOU, the home viewer! The point is, there's changes coming. Some things will inevitably break in the process. (I can't wait to get in there and try redirecting my permalinks... now that's geek heaven!) I trust YOU, the home viewers, will keep me apprised of stuff that no longer works right. So let's all step inside and enjoy that same great snippiness in a shiny new wrapper, shall we? Mmmm... snippy.

Here I thought your flacks from the publicity departmentwere just feeding us a line, when you really went ahead and damn well refurbished the whole thing, from Hampton Inn to Four seasons practically overnight!You're a man of your word, Bill. Now if we could just nominate you somehow to run the wga, or at least produce the superbowl halftime show..

you know, I've stayed in both hampton inns and four seasons, and I can report that although the four seasons' bathrooms are much nicer, hampton inn does a heck of a continental breakfast. so that's sort of how I think about this changeover from MT to typepad, tina: the bathroom's roomier but I kinda miss the danish. I think you know what I mean.